COLLECTIONS of miscellaneous tracts, as follows:- 1. The Boke of Kervynge; without title and beg. "Thow shall be pantere or butler." Printed by Wynken de Worde in 1513, re-edited by F. J. Furnivall for the Early English Text Society, 1868, vol. xxxii. p. 261. After the colophon (f. 7 b), "Thus...
MORAL TREATISE and texts from Scripture, addressed to [Sir] Allen Cotton, alderman and Lord Mayor of London [1625], by his son-in-law Thomas E[yre]. A note at the end states that it was "begonne and intended for a Newe Yeares guifte on Newe Yeares Day in the Yeare of our Lord Christ 1625, of the...
"BISHOP Bedle [?William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, 1629-42, and Ardagh, 1629-33] his groundes for the lawfullnesse of usury." The tract is not included in the lists of Bedell's works given by his biographers. Paper; ff. 47. XVIIth cent. Belonged, 18th cent., to John Keymer. Duodecimo. Usury: Tr...
"COLLECTANEA quædam Anglo-Saxonica e codicibus manuscriptis hinc inde congesta," by William Elstob, M.A. (ob. 1715), and Elizabeth Elstob, his sister. The extracts are mostly taken from manuscripts formerly belonging to Francis Junius, and by him bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. They were pro...
"COLLECTANEA ex Dictionario Theologico Thomæ Gascoynge," from MSS. 117, 118 of Lincoln College, Oxford. Preceded (in the hand of John Anstis, Garter) by the preamble to the patent of Thomas Parker, as Baron Parker of Macclesfield, [1716]. f. 3;- and followed in the same hand by extracts from a...
ANAGRAM On the words "Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Irelande, Defender of the Faith," by P[aul] Lorrain; with explanatory treatise, and dedicatory letter to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 1 Jan. 1684/5. The writer speaks of himsel...
"RECUEIL HISTORIQUE, tiré de plusieurs autheurs": a collection of abstracts of histories and travels, compiled, according to a note on the first page, by James Le Fanu. The chief contents are:- (1) Abstract of Bussy Rabutin's -History of Louis XIV. [1662- 1693]. ff. 2 b-5 b;-(2) Notes on Peru ...
"NOUVEAU DIALOGUE des Morts, ou Entretiens aux Champs Elisez entre Messire Fr. de Fénelon, Arch-duc (sic) de Cambray, et Mre T.B. Bossuet, évêque de Meaux. L'on y fait intervenir Madame Guyon [the Quietist authoress, befriended by Fénelon, but condemned by Bossuet, ob. 1717], femme d'une rare pi...
"DIALECTICA UNIVERSA: tradita a Reverendo D. Domino Vigore de Briois, Religioso Monasterii Sti Vedasti Ordinis Sti Benedicti, Artium Doctore ac Dialecticæ Professore, recepta vero a Richardo Moore, Anglo, 1732"; notes of lectures on Dialectic by Dr. Vigor de Briois, Professor of Dialectic at Dou...